Treasury Extends Bailout Program To October 2010

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Wednesday moved to extend the government's $700 billion bailout fund into October 2010 and pledged to deploy no more than $550 billion of it.

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